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Simple, it's not doing what you think. Actual 4k monitors do not consume that maximum theoretically calculated bandwidth. Indeed, in most cases they only consum
by ztjio 8y ago
Simple, it's not doing what you think. Actual 4k monitors do not consume that maximum theoretically calculated bandwidth. Indeed, in most cases they only consume about 40% of the maximum possible bandwidth of 8 lanes of DP (which is the same as a single TB3 port.)
And yes, despite the generic support claims of 2x4k displays, it is possible to get 2 4k displays you can't run simultaneously on one TB3 port. It's just fairly unlikely.
In practice you'll have 2 4k displays using about 17.28Gbps of the bandwidth leaving the rest for other things. And there's a good reason for that. It enables MST at 4k 60hz. An example is the Dell P2415Q. It supports MST daisy chaining and you can use two of those same monitors together (not with macOS but with Windows) from a single DP1.2 port. That's only possible because the display doesn't actually demand over 8.5-ish Gbps bandwidth.